31 B – St ^<1> –

Thursday 5 Nov

Dear Henry

I wrote to you from Dover & on asking in Sackville S^{t <2>} was surprised to find you were at Edinburgh – To my great vexation I find the box of roots I sent from Naples 4 months ago only arrived about a fortnight. all the plants too dead or too alive the papers directions &c all rotten & in short a failure I have packed it up again having taken out my own parcel & given a few to Mary ^<3> – & send it to Sackville S^t to be forwarded instantly to Lacock – where I suppose the gardener will have sense enough to plant them –

Ly I. ^<4> comes here tomorrow & I believe I shall go with her to Normanby ^<5> meet John ^<6> & return with him to Dorsetshire – I expect to hear from you –

Y^r Aff^te

W F S

Henry F. Talbot Esq
Post Office
Edinburgh

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Notes:

1. 31 Burlington Street, London home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.

2. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.

3. Mary Thereza Talbot (1795–1861), WHFT’s cousin.

4. Juliana Maria Strangways, née Digby (d. 1842).

5. The home in north Lincolnshire of the Sheffield family. Lady Sheffield was a sister of Juliana Maria Strangways, née Digby (d. 1842).

6. John George Charles Fox Strangways (1803–1859), MP.